Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-13
ON The TRAIL.
The Travis County Officers in Hot
Pursuit Of the Two Train Rob
bars Surprised at Manchaca.
4 Detailed Account of Bcw Thsy Made
Their Esc8pe Halls and
shoes Taken From PasseFs by.
They Omit That They Committed fho Me.
Seiii Train Robbery ana say Tnay are
Ia The Business TO stay.
TIE MANCHACA BANDITS.

AUSTIN, TEX., Sept. 12.-The robbers
continue to be all the topic in Austin,
even the Asylum scandal having given
place to it. Various rumors haYe been
afoet, the latest regarding the man Ensal
now in isil. Some assert that he is really
8 detective playing the jail game to pull
the wool over the eyes of the other ban
dts. Following is about the latest from
the outlaws in their flight, furnished by
man VINO was in the pursuit and reached
Austin on the 10 O'Clock train from Red
Rock, IN Bsstrop county.9
The first the robbers did after
their escape from jim Martin aud Mis-
posse st Ma1chaCa was to pounce upon
negro on horseback, whom they met
about mile from their camp. They
ordered the frightened darky
TO JUMP OFF,
which he did, his e, es rolling up like the
full moon. Then in q second both
bestrode the animal, and hatIess and
shOeless galloped away, but finding they
could not get over fences they abandoned
the horse and proceeded on foot, going
five miles in the direction of r ID Rock, in
Bastrop. The two bandits went
to the house of citizen named
G. c. YArbrough and told him
they wanted & couple OF horses. He in
formed them he had only one snd did not
want to let MIN go.
"Then. by hell, We'll take him anyhow"
one OF them said, and giving the aston
ished Yarbrough $50 hey mounted the
horse.
"Now give me your hat" said one OF
the outlaws, glazing at their victim.
FTake it," said the citizen, ''now pull
off them Shoes" said the other bandit.
"Take them, too" replied Yar5rougb
as he united his shoestriDgs
"Be damned quicB, Exclaimed the other
as he adjusted an old farmers hat to his
head.
Leaving Yarbrough's home the two
robbers steered for Red Rock in their
Flight, cutting with Ratchet, which they
took from Yarbrough, the fences on the
Plantations OF Bud Driskill, Judge Ter
reIl, William Blocker, Mr.. Trigg and otn-
ers, They passed down Mshen creek
Some distance down the creek they met
old man Tom Mercer
RIDING FINE HORSE.
Accosting HIM in the rosd they said 10
him:
awe want that. We had o hell Of q
time with the officers this morning and
must have your horse"
81 don't ike to give him up" said
Mercer.
"But you must" said one Of them at
the same time preparing to draw his six
shooter.
Mercer observed the movement and
quietly said "Well, il l must, l must,
that's ell, SO here he is. Take him"
They seemed to have some sense Of
honor, for, taking MERGERS address, they
told him in four days he would get let
ter telling where he would find mis- horse
Old man Mercer had considerable talk
with the robbers. They told him they
had committed the Mcneil train robbery
and by hell they intended
TO COMMIT MANY MORE.
They said they had intended
to rob the train at Man
chacs last Saturday night,
that there were five men in the party,
three only Of whom were visible, two of
them being out skirmishing, as they
called it, when the officers attacked them.
They expressed the opinion that their
companion, the man Eusal, gave them
away ct Manchaca. Mercer gays both
bandits wore blue checked shirts and
| light pants. One of them is 6 smsI man
with black moustaCbe and g two weeks
beard. The small man was shot in the
encounter ct Manchacs, and Mercer says
the bullet struck him
IN THE FOREHEAD
but glanced around on the lett side, cut
| ting bloody cash Of three inches in
length, but apparently not injuring the
bone. The larger msu wore money
belt, which he told Mercer was full Of
money. One of the outlaws wore two
pistols. They told Mercer the officers had
got over 500 from them, but they
would be ID if they didn't
make Jay Gould pay for it. Sheriff
Hornsby and Constable Thorpe OF Travis
county, we're Sunday night on the trail f
{ the robbers. Mr.. F. Z Jones, from
whom the following account is mad, got
back to Austin this morning from Red
Rock. He says the robb5rs told Mercer
they did't give damn for the guards on
the train.